IEP Chandigarh, December 12

Chairman, Haryana Human Rights Commission and Former Justice, Sh. S.K. Mittal said that Haryana Human Rights Commission is an efficient, accountable and authoritative institution. Awareness programmes will be run by the commission to spread awareness about human rights.

Commission Chairman said this during a press conference on the occasion of completion of 10 years of Haryana Human Rights Commission. During the press conference members, Sh. K.C. Puri and Sh. Deep Bhatia were also present.

He said that in order to fulfil the various functions under its jurisdiction, the Commission will continuously work in relation to rights related to health, food, education, rights of persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes communities as well as other vulnerable sections of society.

Commission Chairman stated that from October 2012 to October 2022, 23,192 complaints were registered with the commission. Out of which 22,454 complaints have been resolved so far. In addition, a total of 1,692 RTI applications were received by the Commission from 2017 to 2022, out of which information was provided to 1689 applications within the stipulated time.

He said that the Haryana Human Rights Commission had suggested to the state government that a policy should be made for the prisoners lodged in the jail. On which the Government had prepared a policy. Under which compensation is given in case of death in judicial custody.

In cases of custodial death, compensation is given as per the policy of the State Government formulated on the recommendations made by the Commission on complaints. Rs. 7.50 lakh in case of death due to quarrel between prisoners, torture/beating by jail staff, negligence in duty by officers/staff and Rs. 5 lakh in case of death due to negligence by medical officers/para medical compensation is given. He informed that the National Human Rights Commission also justified this suggestion and asked various state governments across the country to adopt this policy.

He informed that till September 30, 2022, the commission has given compensation of Rs. 1,83,37,100 to the victims in various cases. Daily cognizance is taken by the commission on the basis of news clippings and instructions are also given to take action on that basis.

The Chairman further stated that apart from Chandigarh, a camp court has also been set up in Gurugram, which includes Gurugram, Faridabad, Palwal, Mahendragarh, Rewari and Mewat districts. Cases are disposed of twice a month in this courts. This court was established so that the people of the districts adjacent to it do not have to go far to submit their complaints.

He informed that the commission keeps on inspecting the jails of the state from time to time. He said that if any complaint comes to the notice of the commission, immediate action is taken.

The commission’s chairman and Former Justice, Sh. S.K. Mittal informed that the commission also inspects child care institutions, old age homes, observation homes, places of safety, special homes, child homes, de-addiction centres, homes for destitute women, special schools for blind and deaf persons, old age homes are visited.

IEP Chandigarh December 12

Sh. Amit Kumar Agrawal, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Haryana, Director General, Information, Public Relations & Languages, Secretary to Government, Information, Public Relations & Languages Department, Project Director, Chief Minister’s Good Governance Associates Programme and Secretary to Government, Grievances Department has been given additional charge of Secretary to Government, Haryana, Art & Cultural Affairs Department, in addition to his present duties.Sh. Aditya Dahiya, Director, Medical Education & Research, Haryana, Special Secretary to Government, Haryana, Medical Education & Research Department and Special Secretary to Government, Human Resources Department has been given additional charge of Special Secretary to Government, Monitoring & Coordination Department and Special Secretary to Government, Haryana, Administrative Reforms Department in addition to his present duties.

IEP Chandigarh, December 12

          Following the commitment of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to provide transparent, convenient and hassle free services to the people of the state, the State Government has decided to initiate the process of allotment of government houses at Chandigarh for government employees.

          The Chief Secretary Vijay Kumar Janjua today launched eAwas Housing Management System portal which has been developed by NIC concerned General Administration at Punjab Civil Secretariat.

          Divulging the details, the Chief Secretary Mr. Janjua said that through this portal, the allotment of houses of Punjab pool located in Chandigarh will now be made online only. According to the merit, the government house will be allotted automatically keeping in view the seniority of the government officials. With this system no house will remain vacant for a long time if an employee does not get a plot.

          Mr. Janjua further informed that in the first phase, the allotment of 1257 government houses of different categories of Punjab pool located in Chandigarh will be made online, while in the second phase, allotment of government houses of Punjab pool located in different districts of the state will be done.  On this occasion, the Chief Secretary asked the General Administration Department and NIC to work on setting up a system for generating online admission passes for those coming to the Punjab Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh.

          The General Administration Secretary Kumar Rahul said that information about applying for housing will be available at eawas.punjab.gov.in. The Government officials can apply according to their preference by checking the list of vacant houses on the portal. NIC State Informatics Officer and Deputy Director General Vivek Verma informed that through this system, employees will now be able to apply for a house sitting at their homes. iHRMS data of every government employee is populated using validation through mobile number.

          Prominent among others who were present at the occasion included General Administration Joint Secretary Jagjit Singh, NIC’s Additional State Informatics Officer Vikram Jeet Grover, Senior Technical Director & HOD Anoop Kumar Jalali and Project Lead Technical Director Narinder Singh.

IEP Chandigarh, December 12     

     With the decisive war against drugs waged on the directions of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann to root out the menace of drugs entered sixth month, Punjab Police have arrested as many as 8755 drug smugglers including 1244 big fish since July 5, 2022. The Police have registered a total of 6667 first information reports (FIRs) of which 746 are related to commercial quantity.          Inspector General of Police (IGP) Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill, who was addressing his weekly Press Conference here on Monday said that the Police teams have recovered 325.55-Kg Heroin from across the state after carrying out cordon and search operations in drug-affected areas besides laying nakas at vulnerable routes across the state. Additionally, 147.5-Kg heroin was recovered by the teams of Punjab Police from Seaports of Gujarat and Maharashtra, taking the total effective recovery of heroin to 473.05-Kgs in just five months, he said.          Apart from seizing big-haul of heroin, the IGP said that Police have also recovered 350-Kg opium, 355-Kg Ganja, 211 quintals of poppy husk, and 28.96 lakhs tablets/capsules/injections/vials of Pharma opioids from across the state. The Police have also recovered Rs 5.80 crores of drug money from the possession of drug smugglers arrested in these five months.          He said that the Punjab Police teams in coordination with the Border Security Force (BSF) have dealt a major blow to the cross-border smuggling after recovering 15.34-Kg heroin dropped via drones in just a week. The police have also recovered four drones.          Notably, a hexacopter drone carrying six packets of heroin, weighing 6.68 kg, was recovered in the jurisdiction of Border Outpost (BOP) Harbhajan in Khemkaran on November 29. On the very next day, a broken quadcopter drone was recovered from the area of village Van Tara Singh in Khalra. Similarly, another hexacopter drone carrying five packets of heroin, weighing 5.60 kg, was recovered from the Khemkaran area in Tarn Taran on December 2, while, a Quadcopter drone loaded with three packets of heroin, weighing 3.06Kg, was recovered from area of Border Outpost (BOP) Kalia in Tarn Taran on the next intervening night.          The IGP said that the follow-up investigations into the recovery of 13kg heroin from two Rajasthan-based drug smugglers from Amritsar on November 21 further led to arrest of their two aides and based on their interrogation, the police teams with support of BSF, later recovered 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 10 foreign made .30 bore pistols from border area of Ferozepur.          Giving weekly update, the IGP said that in last one week, the police have arrested 247 drug smugglers/suppliers after registering 197 first information reports (FIRs), including 21 commercial, and recovered 45.55-Kg Heroin, 16.62-Kg opium, 4.80-Kg Ganja, 3.60 quintals of poppy husk, and 28305 tablets/capsules/injections/vials of Pharma opioids besides recovering Rs 55.25 lakh drug money from their possession.          He said that with 15 more Proclaimed Offenders (POs)/Absconders in NDPS cases arrested in the last one week, the total number of arrests reached 562 since the special drive to arrest POs/absconders was started on July 5, 2022.          Pertinently, Director General of Police (DGP), Punjab Gaurav Yadav had given strict instructions to all the CPs/SSPs to investigate backward and forward linkages minutely in each and every case, especially related to drug recoveries, even if they recover a meager amount of drugs.          Meanwhile, on the direction of Chief Minister Punjab Bhagwant Mann to make Punjab a drug-free state, extensive anti-drug drives have been launched by the Punjab Police to combat the menace of drugs from the border State. The DGP has also strictly ordered all the CPs/SSPs to identify all hotspots where drugs are prevalent and all top drug smugglers in their jurisdictions. He also directed the Police chiefs to effectively forfeit the property of all the arrested drug smugglers so that their ill-gotten money could be recovered.

IEP Chandigarh, December 12

Jalandhar Development Authority (JDA) has given an opportunity to buy residential plots and booths situated at Kapurthala and Sultanpur Lodhi. The JDA started e-auction today at 9AM and it will conclude on December 19 at 1PM.

A total of 19 properties situated in Kapurthala and Sultanpur Lodhi have been offered in the e-auction, stated an official spokesperson of the Housing & Urban Development Department.

          As far as the price of properties available in the e-auction is concerned, the price for the residential plots starts from Rs. 32.79 Lac and that of booths starts from Rs. 14.64 Lac. For submission of bids, interested bidders will have to register themselves on the e-auction portal www.puda.e-auctions.in. Complete details pertaining to the properties offered and terms & conditions of the e-auction are also available on this portal, he added.

          Successful bidders would get the possession of the auctioned sites on paying 25% of the bid price. They will be required to pay the balance amount in installments at an interest rate of 9.5% per annum, informed the spokesperson.